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And this is the biggest one of this Saturday, Augusto 25, 2012, but also of this year and forever: test pilot, aeronautics engineer, astronaut of Projects Gemini and Apollo, first man in the Moon, and university professor, Dr. Neil Armstrong passed away at the age of 82.

The blindness of politicians, the lack of vision of those in authority, the budgetary cuts applied to NASA, had been crippling for decades the projection of the humanity to the Space and any relevant Space Program where the human presence is irreplaceable.

The death of Neil Armstrong should give the boost to a new robust Space Program where human beings should go again to the Moon, not just to visit it but to stay there. And they should have to go to Mars in this decade and not within two decades.

That would be the only and adequate homage to this real hero of the whole humanity.

Still resound in our ears those famous words that we heard from him just arrived to the Moon:

The mystery that began back in 1947, usually called as the "UFO Phenomenon", continues.

Many cases have been explained, others raise questions and a small percentage is mired in mystery.

Now there are many people dedicated to study the issue seriously, for which it has become a permanent challenge.

They do it voluntarily without receiving any financial compensation in return. They are moved only by the idea of ​​solving the mystery.

Unfortunately there are those who use it to its personal profit, exploiting the fantastic and mystical side, which generates for them interesting monetary income.

These I call "sellers of fantasies and illusions."A friend researcher calls them "mountebanks"For them UFOs are not such because they already know what they are.The mystery is solved ...They claim they are alien spacecraft and some say they havethem as guests and traveled to distant planets.

They tell permanently their stories and sometimes when they repeat some of them they do it differently, changing some facts, etc., but no one corrects them.

The sad thing is that many people believe them without even analyzingits improbable and impossible stories and pays to listen.

So much has gone down the cultural level of the world we live in?

When I call them "sellers of fantasies and illusions" I do so, assumingthey really know what they preach is not true.

If, however, these individuals believe they are telling true stories, the term "sellers of fantasies ..." wouldn’t apply and they should be called within the frame of some psychiatric pathology, which would make them more dangerous ...

Maybe there could be a bit of both.

Fortunately they are not so many and they are easily recognizable....

Either way, they are individuals who contribute nothing positive to the studyof UFOs and instead what they do is make matters worse for those who seriously deal with it.

For those willing to pay admission to any conference, speech, etc. of anyone of them, my advice is to spend money on a ticket to see some science fiction movie.

As bad as it may be, it will be better than the conference.

Germán S. Vázquez

Co-founder of CIOVI, one of the pioneer institutions in Latin America dedicated to the investigation and study of the Ufo Phenomenon, he is seasoned expert on the subject with more than 54 years of experience. CIOVI was closed when it reached its 50th Anniversary. Now Mr. Vazquez is a member of the UAPSG.